was hit by the car but was not badly hurt. the worker was taken to the hospital to be checked out. we have a crew on scene gathering information. we will bring you new info as we get it. a new hampshire man shocked putting up his holiday display. nearly 20,000 volts surged through his body as he was using a metal pole to hang up good evening. i'm paula ebben. >> and i'm liam martin. beth germano spoke with his wife. >> an explosion and a cloud of smoke and you could smell you know, that wiry burning smell. >> reporter: and that sent karen mcclair running outside to find her husband, bill, semi- conscious on the ground. >> laying flat and his eyes started rolling back in his

william. stay with me. >> reporter: he was using a 24- foot aluminum pole to hang christmas lights. >> and he put the metal hook on the end of it to grab the string and the lights on the hook and reached up. >> reporter: to a tree that stands close high-tension wires energized to nearly 20,000 volts, and it was a breezy day. >> the wind just caught it enough and he went back too fa and he touched the live wire. >> reporter: the equipment on the lawn, evidence of the accident. >> an aluminum pole makes an excellence path. >> reporter: fortunately, the pole was also touching the ground at the moment of impact. >> when the electricity went through it, it grounded out in the ground and his body didn't

to burn his hands and feet and he is being checked out for internal injuries. >> it makes you realize had you precious life is. >> reporter: he had hung the lights for more than 20 years and is hoping to leave the hospital and finish the job. i'm beth germano, wbz news. the kansas water slide where a 10-year-old boy was killed will soon be schlitterbahn said that the 168- football slide is permanentsly closed. investigators are working to figure out what happened causing caleb s chwab's death. human sex trafficking is a multi-million dollar industry and police say it's happening all over our state.

look at who is buying and who can be done to stop them. >> how are you? good. i'm detective carsons -- coppins with the quincy police. your business, shut down. you can't work in this business. >> reporter: the owner of this business is operating without the purpose license from the city of quincy, but based on on- something else. >> i don't know why a woman in a negligee has to do with this. >> reporter: they are cracking down on massage parlors offering sexual favors for a client, often from overseas. clues, officers say that they are working unwillingly. >> no id and no licenses, and

place of business. >> reporter: police say men walking in and out and coppin said it's nearly impossible to prove what's going on. >> it looks legitimate, and that's part of our problem. we don't know what's going on. >> reporter: the website paints a clear picture of a rampant state wide problem. >> there are 20,000 ads posted monthly, and they have 52 responses. >> reporter: from the cities to the suburbs, johns reviews of massage parlors and individual sex workers with language too graphic for us to post here. there are phone numbers posted to speak directly with the johns. >> the goal is to disrupt that activity in the moment and

anonimity. >> they drive up to 50% of the transactions. >> reporter: that man said he illegally purchased sex for seven years including from sex trafficking victims. >> i said she is a sex slave and extremely -- i'm very ashamed by that. >> reporter: a former husband, a grand father, and a sex addict. >> the sexual, compulsive behaviors i could not stop. >> reporter: addicts anonymous meetings and said part of the solution is treatment. >> taking this out of the darkness and shining a light on it has made a huge difference for me and able to regain my sanity. >> reporter: but law enforcement argues there needs to be responsibility. >> the 9 -- message to buyers is you will be held accountable. >> reporter: laughter from the attorney general on down told

often unable to speak freely. more on our website, cbs boston,.com. louisa moller, wbz news. the judge heard the debate over a green space at boston children's hospital. a group is trying to stop the hospital from being destroyed during the expansion. the that as a get away from grueling treatment. no word on when the judge will rule. a big issue with hundreds of thousands of minivans. >> coming up, toyota's big new recall. and a fireball streaking across the sky. and artificial sweetener stopping weight loss? the news every diet soda lover needs to hear. and say hello to our weather watchers. temperatures are falling back in the 30s.

from craig from weymouth. thank you for all the well wishes. a look at the thanksgiving forecast coming up. tonight at 11:00, a must see story before you shop online. working with stations across the country, we researched and discovered that the price you see in an app is not necessarily what someone else might even if the product is the same. what you can do to make sure

on the money watch, a big recall from toyota, issues with more than 700,000 i 18 minivans. the latch could come loose causing the sliding doors to open when it's moving. something you want to know about with kids.

notices after the new year. apple reviving the flip phone? maybe. they got a patent for a flexible iphone that can fold in half but opens and closes like a notebook. no word when they will put this in production. for some, ugly christmas sweaters are a valued tradition but if they are not ugly enough, you can design your own, liam. uglychristmassweater.com will allow you to make a custom ugly sweater but tell run about $100. >> what? just get a red sweater and throw junk on this. >> levan reid. >> he sews his own. >> right. good news for women who waited to start a family. >> how it could help your memory in the long run. and coming up at 6:00, on the road to recovery. an east boston girl diagnosed with a paralyzing disease takes

for thanksgiving. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine.

my gravy had an accident. follow me. i'm usually the gravy master. my guest list just tripled. i want to go really big with my appetizers. we can do it without blowing our budget. oh yeah, this is great! my family deserves a new tradition... happier and healthier. everything for thanksgiving.

right now, 44 large fires are burning in the southeast u.s. investigatorssay arsonists are lighting more of these every day. 120,000 acres in total from georgia, tennessee, north carolina, to kentucky. high winds are making it tough to get those flames under control. a bright flash of light over the skies in north port, florida. take a look. the dash cameras from two patrol cars captured a fireball. brighter than a usual meteor as it streaks across the sky. and a baby elephant saved

fell into a water-filled ditch. one rescuer held the elephant's trunk above the water and others called for help and they used a tractor to pull him out and released him back safely into the wild. and that flash of light, we've seen that happen here and there. remember russian? it looked like an explosion. >> and you have all the dashcams to catch the meteors. see? did you see that? >> oh, sure did you. >> now we see them all the time. cameras everywhere. hey, we might get snow. >> a little snow, moon snow. >> for the turkey trots and football games, not too bad. not, chilly but no major problems. and bright skies. 45 in boston, typical for this time of year and any day over

but the cold temperatures, they're upon us. looking across the northeast, plenty of chilly air, not particularly cold, just borderline enough to give us wintery precipitation. and this is the situation we are watching with the clouds moving in tonight, increasing cloud cover and we fall back in the 20s, so everyone for the most part will be below freezing when we see the next system move in. tomorrow morning, mainly cloudy chance for a few flurries. no major issues. it will be a cold one. bring the hot chocolate or coffee. midday, temps very slowly climbing up and not much wind tomorrow, a nice change and then as we head towards feasting time, rain showers develop and north and west a chance for the temps to hover

icing spots. we'll see how the temperatures move throughout the day but keep in mind there could be a few slick zones. high temps in norwood and the upper midwest, upper 30s to low 40s, and we'll be in the middle 40s for the cape, the island, and the south coast. a chance for a few flurries, changing to rain showers tomorrow night. as you are heading home, we could see wet streaks few shots a chance for icy travel. for friday shopping, cloudy skies and drizzle, light showers, damp and dreary and not too much wind to deal with. and when it comes to snow, coating, maybe an inch in vermont, new shasm hire, and the northern berkshires at the most. in terms of icy spots early on friday morning, a chance for a little bit of icy glaces.

traveling. for friday, highs approaching 50 toward the cape and the upper 30s, a gray day. this weekend brings changes. the storm system develops to the east and will bring us a few rain showers on saturday and you might see it change over to wet snow at the end on saturday afternoon and drier air was moving back in for sunday. here is the accu-weather 7 day putting it together, temperatures stay cool. this weekend, definitely saturday, and sunday, a chance for breezy conditions and drier conditions and drier monday as well. a school yard shout out from harvard, massachusetts today. barry burbank chatted with them as part of the wbz weather bug network, and they completed choress at home to earn money for wednesday's child.

>> always one, always one doing this. >> oh, the harlem shake or something. >> love that. well done, man. on the healthwatch news, anything but sweet for people trying to lose weight. we may know why some artificial sweeteners are not helping you to drop the pounds. dr.mallika marshall, this will be a surprise for a lot of people. >> first, i -- okay. i don't do it right. [laughter] >> and instead of helping you crop the pounds one sugar substitute may prevent you from losing weight. as pratame is found in your tea or coffee and many foods but it

prevent obesity and diabetes. you may be shooting yourself in the foot if you are trying to drop a few pounds and i have to say this made me a little sad. >> stick with water. but good news for older moms? that's right. this includes me. having a baby later in life may help prevent memory loss when you're older. there was a study that looked and found that the reproduction in later life could affect your brain function. if you had your last baby after your 35th birthday, you may have sharper memory later in life and using hormonal birth control like the pill, for example, for more than 10 years may be protective. it doesn't mean women have to wait until 35 to finish having kids or take hormonal birth

something about women that enables them to have babies after the age of 35 that makes the brains stay sharper? or something about the hormones? >> we'll have to pay attention. liam? >> paula and mallika, thank you. coming up, the list no one wants to be on. coming up at 6:00, two big stories coming driver accelerated in reverse and hit a worker. and there are troubling charges against a former attorney once named one of people magazine's

. as you tomorrow, our jon keller is busy collecting turkeys for all of us to enjoy. >> we has his picks for the local turkeys of 2016. >> i say it's show time. >> reporter: when it comes to making smart bets with our gambling industry, could there be a bigger turkey than the state gaming commission? it was a litany of

moving forward and bylaw, they are supposed to help economically constructive areas but they rejected a broxton plan to bring desperately needed jobs to the ailing city. another government turkey? the long-awaited green line extension, so wildly over budget that the plans had to be scrapped earlier. state officials hope to salvage a scaled-down plan but they'll need generous funding from a major political ally in our leadership. good luck with that. how did curt schilling, 1 of our greatest local sports heroes turn into a world class turkey? by over sharing his political views, inproapts tweets equating muslims with nazis and mocking transgender people which cost him his tv broadcasting job.

elizabeth warren, of course. no one is invincible but the turnout at a receipt political rally was not a promising sign. hey, everybody loves venomous rattlesnakes, don't they? apparently not as governor charlie baker learned when he proposed stake a snake farm on an uninhabited island. the outcry was intense and after some slithering, state officials put the plan we already have one snake farm. why do we need another? [laughter] >> and it has a golden dome 72. and there were many other candidates we didn't have time to get to. you - - but the thing is you don't need me to tell you about a turkey. >> you were saying ryan lochte might be on there. >> we have a whole other year ahead of us.

series, "escape to rattlesnake island." >> thank you, jon. we have much more still ahead. >> the news at 6:00 starts right now. a former assistant district attorney facing sex assault accusations for the fourth time. >> and the rush is on. if you are driving on massachusetts's major highways, you may not be going anywhere fast. we have your trip covered. >> and the forecast, a chance for a couple of the outlook for the weekend. >> and a sign of hope this holiday as a girl who thought she would never walk again gets movement back in her legs. the news at 6:00 starts right now. we begin at 6:00 with sky high over a hannaford grocery store on this thanksgiving eve, obviously a busy place.

cart. beth germano is live at the scene. beth? >> reporter: this happened the night before thanksgiving when the parking lot is filled with cars, and that's the corral where the person was hit. the driver accelerated backwards and hit the carriage attendant who, fortunately, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. but in the chaos, the driver struck at least causing more damage, a lot of dented fenders and doors. the deputy fire chief said it was lucky there were not more injuries. a lot of people running and screaming at the sight of this, and the far hit at least six other cars. we spoke with the deputy fire chief and a witness a short time ago. >> a crowded parking lot as you can see, filled with people as it was happening and everyone was very lucky. people hit and people came out

hit but it turned out very well. >> we saw people rung outside and came outside and caw the car damaged. a woman in a back car backed into three of these cars. it was a hectic scene. people were shocked. they didn't realize what had happened. >> reporter: all this happened in the pre-thanksgiving rush. the parking lot is filled with cars as it is now. and again,s that the storage bin where the driver backed up. driver to accelerate. that driver was taken to the hospital as long as with the carriage attend apt. -- attendant. the injuries are not thought to be serious. beth germano, wbz news. and a former prosecutor is accused of rape.